The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.